Information Aggregation and Communication in Organizations
研究组织内运营单元如何传递私人信息，假设决策者一旦做出事后证明错误（相对于现状）的决定就会被解雇，且小组直接沟通存在与规模相关的信息丢失概率，刻画了最优沟通结构。
Operating units must communicate their private information regarding decisions to be taken in organizations. This paper characterizes the optimal communication structures assuming that (i) a decision maker is fired whenever he makes a decision that proves wrong ex post relative to the status quo; and (ii) direct communication in a group of kunits may result in the loss of messages with a probability that solely depends on the group size. Several levels of partitioning with direct communication taking place in each group are required. It is shown that there exists a group size that allows communication technology to be exploited optimally: The optimal communication structure is such that it is essentially composed of groups of this size only at every level of partitioning.